Scan from the Photocopy and send to computers

I use a Kyocera 3050 photocopier that can scan documents and send them digitally to any folder shared on the network to any computer automatically. Ofcourse the folder path including the IP address and the username/password of the computer has to be setup before on to the photocopy machine. There is no problem sending to a normal computer but when I tried the same procedure to my Server computer with 2008R2, it didn't work. The photocopier cannot connect to the server even with the administrator login credentials.

Is there anything that I have to configure in the server computer? as I can see that other computers allow the photocopier to do the job.

It's not a question of SMB, it's authentication. To authenticate with an AD server a device needs to be enrolled in the domain; normally this involves client software on the device. Does your photocopier say that it can participate in a Windows domain?

The server's responsible for verifying user credentials, so only the server needs to be a part of AD.

Set up an account specifically for the photocopier on the domain, and make sure you can use the account to write to whatever share you're planing. Make sure the photocopier can see the server from where it is on the network, and try going by the server's IP instead of the server's name. Also, make sure DFS is not in play, as most scanners I've seen don't understand it.

No, you still can. Nothing stops you from connecting to a share on a domain with your domain account. You just can't log on locally using your domain account.

Joining a domain does two things:1) It causes the local workstation to trust the domain's user database. 2) It adds an account to the domain that the workstation uses to do its own authentication queries.

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